Apple commits $100 billion to US manufacturing as part of the American Manufacturing Program, expands Corning to 100 percent of iPhone and Apple Watch cover glass in Kentucky, and partners with Samsung at its Texas chip fab on a “never-before-used” chipmaking technology. Sony raises its annual profit forecast to ¥1.33 trillion (about $9 billion) and…
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MIT and Duke researchers used AI to design polymers with iron-based ferrocenes that absorb stress, dramatically speeding up additive discovery from weeks per candidate, with findings published in ACS Central Science. Profluent Bio used a protein language model trained on 500 million sequences to invent OpenCRISPR-1, the first CRISPR enzyme designed entirely by AI, which…
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Gemini Live debuted in late 2024 as Google’s replacement for Google Assistant and is built on the Gemini LLM, enabling real-time screen and camera analysis. Alexa+ was announced in early 2025 and rolled out as a free Prime upgrade (or $19.99/month) with a model-agnostic mix (Nova and Anthropic Claude 2) to handle calendars, reservations, rides,…
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Wi‑Fi Sensing (IEEE 802.11bf) repurposes 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz Wi‑Fi signals to detect movement across a typical home, offering tens of meters of range, millisecond‑level latency, and energy‑efficient operation by piggybacking on existing routers. Ultra‑Wideband (UWB; IEEE 802.15.4z) uses ultra‑wide pulses around 6–8 GHz to measure time‑of‑flight with centimeter‑level accuracy, typically 10–15…
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Rwanda’s first internet access occurred around 1996, and by 2000 there were about 5,000 users (less than 0.1% of the population). In 2004 Rwanda privatized Rwandatel and sold it to Terracom, opening the ISP market to competition. Between 2008 and 2010, Rwanda laid over 3,000 km of national fiber backbone across all 30 districts, linking…
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Near-real-time satellite imagery is common: Landsat 8 images can appear within seconds of downlink, NASA Worldview layers update within about 3 hours, and geostationary weather satellites refresh every 5–15 minutes. The ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment streams live video of Earth from about 400 km up with roughly 1-second latency, and the view shifts as…
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SpaceX Sets Launch Records, Amazon’s Kuiper Mission Up Next Rocket Lab Delivers Japanese Radar Satellite China Launches Internet Satellites, Sparks Debris Concerns NASA Mission Updates: Small-Sat Setbacks & Mars Rover Milestone ISS Crew Rotation and U.S.-Russia Cooperation Europe Preps Ariane 6 Debut and Future Missions Big Commercial Deals: Smartphone Constellations & Moon Ventures Space Policy Highlights:…
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MIT and Duke University researchers used AI to design tougher plastics, identifying iron-based ferrocene additives and mechanophores that make polymer networks absorb stress, with results published in ACS Central Science. Profluent Bio used generative AI to create OpenCRISPR-1, the first AI-designed CRISPR enzyme, which edited human genome cells and was trained on 500 million sequences,…
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In mid-2025, x86 remains the top performer for legacy software and high-end workloads, with 64-core or 96-core Xeon/EPYC-class servers still setting the benchmark. Apple’s M-series SoCs, built on 8–10 core ARM64 designs and led by the M1 (2020) and M2 generations, demonstrate high performance-per-watt that rivals many x86 laptops. RISC-V’s open, modular ISA uses a…
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In 2021, more than 400 cell towers were destroyed amid fighting, crippling parts of Myanmar’s mobile network. MPT’s FTTH network expanded to 154 of 330 townships by early 2024, up from 27 townships in 2019. As of early 2024, Myanmar had about 64.3 million mobile connections (roughly 117% SIM penetration), with 4G coverage around 90%…
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